The Wanting - J. Roddy Walston & The Business

Don’t sell the farm yet, believe in me

Don’t break the branches off the family tree

I’m made of good wood, bend but don’t break

There’s only so much middle sons can take

My mechanics of coping

Alcohol, melatonin

Ain’t enough to get you out of my life

You can grab, you can hold it

But you’re gonna let go when

Everything about it just ain’t right

So we’re just

Dead fields sown in pain

I’m the last of your name

I can’t do it all, but I wouldn’t do it all the same

Hard hearts, soft on the past

Well, the hurt came quick, bitterness came to last

You’re the one thing that I want

And the wanting’s all I’ll have

There are some deeds that can’t be undid

There are some moral slopes that can’t be unslid

Did you do right by us?

Best it could be

You’ve done no harm, but you’ve been no good to me

You only think you’re at home when

You’re out and making atonement

Someday, you got to make up your own mind

You’re never gonna get free of

The way you left me to need love

I returned the pain you paid us in kind

So we’re just

Dead fields sown in pain

I’m the last of your name

I can’t do it all, but I wouldn’t do it all the same

Hard hearts, soft on the past

Well, the hurt came quick, bitterness came to last

You’re the one thing that I want

And the wanting’s all I’ll have

Upon the mount, there was a sermon

And then there was a lesson learned

If I can only touch in third person

Is this cause to be concerned?

I want to know if the passing’s complete

And if it was a clean divide

Is this your body?

Is this where you’ll sleep?

I want to love you

I want to tell you, but I can’t change my mind

So we’re just dead fields sown in pain

I’m the last of your name

I can’t do it all, but I wouldn’t do it all the same

Hard hearts, soft on the past

Well, the hurt came quick, bitterness came to last

I can’t forgive and forget

You took the one thing that I had

Now you’re the one thing that I want

And the wanting’s all I’ll have